Prof. Aditi Majumder and Prof. M. Gopi brings in nVidia grants to make UCI a CUDA Teaching Center

Aditi Majumder

Gopi Meenakshisundaram

Prof. Aditi Majumder and Prof. M. Gopi brings in nVidia grants to make UCI a CUDA Teaching Center 

Prof. Majumder and Prof. Gopi's efforts were instrumental in winning an nVidia grant awarding UCI the status of CUDA Teaching Center (CTC). The grant consisted of equipment grant of 46 GTX580 GPUs and C2070 Tesla board which will be used to improve and augment ICS instructional facility and 50% instructional support funding for two quarters to help students in the lab with CUDA programming training. There are several such CTCs around the world including Purdue University, Rochester Institute of Technology, George Mason University, University of Wisconsin Madison, University of Texas Austin, UC-Los Angeles, and UNC Charlotte.